‘Border guards named as Kabkabiya killers’ in North Darfur

Witnesses to the murder and burning of a displaced man in Kabkabiya town, North Darfur, on Sunday have named two militia members, including an officer in the border guards, who they claim to be responsible. “The accused were border guards Lt. Ismail Abdulah and Adouma Abdulah Ibra, as well as three others whose names have not been identified”, one of the witnesses told Radio Dabanga. Five gunmen in military uniforms in a Land Cruiser opened fire on Ismail Adam Sul, 10 metres from the Unamid site in Kabkabiya town, on Sunday at 7pm. Adam Sul’s body was found scorched 1km north of the town after the perpetrators took his body and fled north. “We have informed the police about the accusation, and reported the crime to the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (Unamid)”, the witness reported. He noted that the five suspects are riding a Land Cruiser vehicle mounted with a Dushka machine gun and still roam freely inside Kabkabiya.Residents fear militiamen Heavily armed pro-government militiamen have been wandering inside the market of Kabkabiya, which scared shop owners and led to the continued closure of the market for three consecutive days including Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the workers at the market told Radio Dabanga that ten vegetable shops and restaurants were opened on Wednesday morning, but closed in less than two hours as large numbers of pro-government militia members carrying various weapons entered the market. An activist from Kabkabiya stressed that “the displaced people in all Kabkabiya camps are living in a state of panic because of the lawlessness and the huge spread of heavily armed militias for five days now”. Men and women do not go out of their homes to collect firewood, he told Radio Dabanga. Internally displaced people of nearby camps have given a memorandum about the deteriorated security situation in Kabkabiya to Unamid, the state of North Darfur and the organisations in the region on Wednesday. File photoRelated: North Darfuris live in fear after market attack (15 January 2014)